Memorable TV

Fargo (FX 2015, Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman)

Fargo (FX 2015, Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman)

Published

2 years ago

on

July 14, 2016

In the first season of Fargo it is 2006 and chaos begins to reign when assassin Lorne Malvo leaves his latest victim in the woods around the town of Bemidji, Minnesota. Having crashed his car and injured himself slightly he stops at the local hospital. He meets mild mannered Lester Nygaard, an insurance salesman who has had his nose broken by the bullying Sam Hess. Malvo suggests to Nygaard that he should murder Hess and when Nygaard doesn’t dismiss the idea Malvo makes Hess his next victim. Before you know it Nygaard has also murdered his wife and Malvo, in trying to clear up Lester’s mess, has shot Police Chief Vern Thurman.

It is left to deputy Molly Solverson and Deputy Gus Grimly from Duluth Police Department to navigate their way through a growing list of bodies as Nygaard attempts to cover up his crimes and Malvo continues to create havoc.

Fargo is superb, full of brilliant performances and even better scripts from Noah Hawley who takes the quirkiness and openess of the original Coen brothers movie and amplifies it.

Fargo II followed in 2015 and was a completely new story set in 1979 albeit a story that included lots of nods to the first season, not least in making the lead character Molly’s father.